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How to prepare for the future of work by learning and crafting your own AI flow

“The hottest new programming language is English” was a simple tweet in Jan 2023 by Andrej Karpathy, the world renowned GenAI influencer. The tweet has received 3.5M views till date. The pace at which GenAI is progressing, recent advancements like GPT Builder, Amazon Q, and AWS PartyRock may actualize this tweet sooner than most experts may think.

This pace of innovation is great news for the global economy. McKinsey research found that generative AI features stand to add up to $4.4 trillion to the global economy—annually. One year after ChatGPT hit the market, more than half of the companies PwC surveyed (54%) have implemented GenAI in some areas of their business.

GenAI also has the potential to level the playing field between new entrants in the workforce and those who are experienced. According to MIT paper on the productivity effects of GenAI, ChatGPT users showed a 37% reduction in time taken for tasks while it also reduced productivity inequality between different levels of skills.

Retooling for GenAI is a global necessity

While all these insights are exciting, there is also concern that generative AI will perform at a median level of human performance by the end of this decade and its performance will compete with the top 25 percent of people completing tasks including sensory perception, social and emotional reasoning, output articulation and presentation, among others, before 2040. That is 40 years sooner in many cases than many experts previously thought, as per the McKinsey research mentioned earlier. The same study reports technical automation potential across several occupation groups to cross 50% and go as high as more than 80% in some occupations like office support and production work.

Retooling and reskilling across these and many other knowledge related occupations is a global necessity. Some occupations will go away, some will require elevated human expertise combined with AI assistants, and many new occupations will emerge.

There may also be a significant upward swing in startups and gig economy. In the All In Podcast, Chamath Palihapitiya, the billionaire CEO of VC firm Social Capital, said AI productivity gains could lead to millions of startups made up of one or two people teams, causing investors to make a higher proportion of smaller bets.

How does everyone prepare for this massive change? How do we ensure that the future of work brings opportunity and positive impact in the lives of everyone? Well, that is why the AI for Everyone newsletter exists. I am dreaming that it will make a small yet meaningful contribution to this humanity scale change.

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I have spent two decades following several technology waves, retooling myself over and over again, publishing books, blogs, tutorials, and open source to help retool others, and setting up global innovation centers to help communities innovate at country scale. I love learning and preparing for future of work by writing, creating, and sharing with others who might get a running start.

Here I go again, possibly performing the most awesome retooling project I ever did. I will share my journey as I learn from the state of open source and research, get to use some of the leading AI platforms, and as I build with AI to prepare myself for the absolutely exciting future of work!

The author writes about generative AI to share his personal interest in this rapidly evolving field. The author's opinions are his own and do not represent the views of any employer or other entity with which the author may be associated.

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